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Brainwashed Iraqi children play shocking game by 'shooting' each other in the head
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In a new video released by ISIS, young Iraqi boys are shown on their knees with their hands behind their backs and facing a wall as they are "shot" with a toy gun. The sickening game displays the brainwashing in which Iraqi children are subjected to.
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CALIFORNIA NETWORK (https://www.youtube.com/c/californianetwork)
2/17/2016 (9 years ago)
Published in Middle East
Keywords: ISIS, children, execution, game, Iraq, brainwashed
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The video features four boys lining up along the floor as they await "death" by a toy gun an adult, who remains primarily off-screen, holds.
The mock executioner accuses the boy of being "pigs" and announces they are being "executed by the heroes in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant." It is then he holds the toy weapon to their heads and fires.
The boys fall over in fits of giggles as they are either too young or too brainwashed to recognize the significance of their actions and the point of their game.The video was released by humanitarian group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered (RBSS) and Ahul Bayt, an Iranian news agency.
Though the video was originally posted in 2014, it has only just been released in the United States as ISIS continues to brainwash children and forcing them to normalize extreme violence.
Last August ISIS released a shocking video in which a 3-year-old boy was encouraged to behead a teddy bear and, more recently, Jihadi Junior has made headlines for appearing in ISIS propaganda videos and for detonating a bomb that killed three ISIS prisoners.Other examples of child brainwashing include providing information for how to raise jihadi babies and videos featuring children being trained to kill.
According to Daily Mail, RBSS member Sarmad al Jilane told Sky News in Istanbul, "There are a lot of suicide bombers that Daesh have orchestrated and as well as brainwashing the children they place them on the frontline of battles and if they are killed it is considered that they have protected the lives of Daesh by putting children on the front line."
ISIS is also known to offer various forms of propaganda aimed at children to enforce violence and encourage children to love Daesh.
Please pray that ISIS' reign ends soon and that no more children will be forced to grow up brainwashed and victims of the terrorist regime.
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